Fall/Winter 1973
The Fall/Winter 1974 Issue focuses on the intersection of science, religion, and the legacy of Harold B. Lee. Robert Rees introduces a discussion on the relationship between science and religion, setting the stage for various essays. Arthur Henry King, James B. Allen, and Barnett Seymour Salzman offer reflections on the life and passing of Harold B. Lee, blending historical and personal perspectives. The section on science and religion, edited by James L. Farmer, features Richard F. Haglund Jr.'s exploration of the symbiosis between the two fields, while Duane E. Jeffrey discusses the tensions between evolution and religious thought. Hugh Nibley offers insights into early Christian views on the organization of worlds in Treasures In the Heavens, and Edward L. Kimball engages in a dialogue with scientist Henry Eyring. A series of dialogues follows, with social, biological, and medical scientists discussing the relationship between science and religion. William E. Dibble examines The Book of Abraham in relation to Pythagorean astronomy, while William Lee Stokes revisits an old geological controversy. Benjamin Urrutia analyzes the structure of Genesis, Chapter 1. And poetry, art, and reviews!
Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 4–6
The divergence of science and religion is essentially a modern phenomenon. Until the 18th century, theology was considered the queen of the sciences and scientists considered that their discoveries allowed them “to think God’s thoughts after Him.”
When I was asked by Dialogue to write something in memory of President Harold B. Lee, my thought immediately went in two directions: the impact President Lee had upon the Church, and the influence he…
When this special issue of Dialogue was first conceived, it became evident that the phrase “science and religion” has quite different meanings for different people. It was clear that the issue could not be comprehensive…
For most of us, there is little doubt that science was victorious in its centuries-long warfare with theology. From Galileo—kneeling in the robes of a penitent criminal before his Inquisitors, pleading for mercy on the grounds of age and infirmity— we have come full circle, to William Jennings Bryan in the dock at the Scopes “Monkey Trial”—trying desperately to demonstrate the Bible as the infallible guide to the story of Creation, then succumbing without dignity to the pitiless goad of Clarence Darrow.
Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 43–73
Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented to be ignored, his concepts of evolution1 by natural selection have been hotly debated now for well over a century.
The canonical writings and the apocrypha have a good deal to say about “treasures in the heavens.” If we compare the “treasures” passages in a wide sampling of these writings, including those of Qumran, Nag…
Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 99–108
Over the years Henry Eyring’s status in the first rank of scientists has become secure. He has produced a staggering volume of research publications in the fields of his interests: application of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, radioactivity, theory of reaction rates, theory of liquids, rheology, molecular biology, optical rotation, and theory of flame.
Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 109–126
To answer that question we needed to create some instruments with which we could gather the data. We are currently engaged in that instrument-building phase. As one step in that process, we interviewed several well-established LDS academicians located at various institutions of higher education in the United States.
Dialogue 8.3 (Winter 1973): 11 – 72
The subject of Pythagoreanism is so controversial and loaded with uncertainties that what follows should be considered as speculation and suggestion for future research.
Under the title “Puzzling Fossils Unearthed,” the Deseret News of 13 June, 1968 reported the discovery of “a fossilized footprint” which was said to pose a “dilemma for geologists.” The discovery was made in the…
The first chapter of the first book of the Bible is probably one of the most influential, derided, pervasive, debated, and misunderstood religious texts in our culture. Some light may be shed on its significance…
Steve pulled open the heavy glass door to the clinic, walked in, stopped, took off his sunglasses, and rubbed the burning spots behind both ears. The army doctor had told him that rubbing or scratching…
Your letter caught me by surprise, not because your particular form of unhappiness and your objections to the Church are unique—and not only because I remember you as a person living in quite a different…
My father and mother greeted me as the first of five daughters, eleven months and sixteen days after they were married. During the fifty five years of their being together, I have been home with…
The ancients of light radiating wisdom on wings of eagles break through the sky in a surge of compassion:
In the Milestones section of Time
Magazine a few cramped words: “Died, Harold B. Lee,
President of the Church
of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints”
When Jed Smith passed us by, in 1826,
The junipers made a rush down from the hills.
They were cut back
Before they got to the freeway.
Not the birds ready
nor I, nor the last petunias still warm
against the house. In the dry fields
Ever last jack man, woman, and papoose
was down to the station to see the President
come steaming in, smoke blowing, Panama waving
pleasure to ride your new train yessir nice
country Senator Smoot Squint Indian howdaya do.
Jake Dockson wore bib overalls
and smelled of corrals and harness.
He could lift three hundred pounds and
handle the Jackson fork, but he
This collection of essays is frankly polemical, asking indeed for “equal time” in the great debate which is now going on concerning the limits of growth, both in the human population and in its artifacts.…
Ian G. Barbour’s book is a rarity in the area of science and religion, for the theme does not suffer at all, but benefits greatly from Barbour’s organization and presentation of problems. Barbour teaches modern physics, appears to be well versed in modern theology, and has a broad knowledge of history and philosophy.
Even before his death in 1938 at the age of eighty-five, J. Golden Kimball had become the most talked about of all Mormon churchmen. He was himself cognizant of his reputation, and when a nephew…
“It is still surprising,” state the editors of this volume, “how little good material is available in many areas of Mormon history.” To help correct this deficiency, F. Mark McKiernan of the Restoration Trails Foundation,…
In Dialogue’s maiden issue Rodello Hunter’s A House of Many Rooms was re viewed as one of those books “. . . by Mormons for non-Mormons,” a valid classification of the book. Mrs. Hunter’s A…
Among historians of the West LeRoy Hafen is well known for his prodigious shelf of books—The Overland Mail, History of Colorado, Broken Hand, Fort Laramie, Western America, and two score more of documentary and reference…
Life, Look and now Courage are gone but presumably not forgotten. Courage, for those of you not familiar with this periodical, was the RLDS counterpart to Dialogue which ceased publication in 1973 after three hopeful volumes. I bring this fact to the reader’s attention only to emphasize the tenuous existence faced by periodicals in this inflationary era. The problems are simple to describe but difficult to overcome.
